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From: Arne Jansen <sensille@gmx.net>
To: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	hch@infradead.org, ricwheeler@gmail.com
Subject: Quota Implementation
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:24:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE90AC9.5040106@gmx.net> (raw)

Hi,

If no one is already working on it, I'd like to take the Quota lock and
see how far I come.
Let me sketch out in short what I'm planning to do:

  - Quota will be subvolume based. Only the FS-trees and data extents
    will be accounted.
  - Quota Groups can be defined. Every quota group can comprise any
    number of subvolumes. A subvolume can be assigned to any number
    of quota groups.
  - A Quota Group can account/limit the total amount of space that is
    referenced by it and/or the amount of space that is exclusively
    referenced (i.e. referenced by no other quota group).
  - With this it is possible to define a hierarchical quota that need
    not necessarily reflect the filesystem hierarchy.
  - It is also possible to decide for each snapshot if it should be
    accounted into the parent group. So in a scenario where each
    subvolume reflect a user home, it's possible to have some snapshots
    accounted to the user and others not (e.g. the ones needed for system
    backups).
  - Quota information will be stored in new records, possibly in a
    separate tree.
  - It should be possible to change the Quota config and group
    assignments online, though this might need a full re-scan of the fs.
  - It does NOT include any kind of user/group (UID/GID) quota.

Any addenda or arguments why it's impossible or insane welcome.

-Arne

             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-03 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-03 16:24 Arne Jansen [this message]
2011-06-03 16:47 ` Quota Implementation Hugo Mills
2011-06-03 20:44   ` Andrey Kuzmin
2011-06-04  6:36     ` Arne Jansen
2011-06-04  8:04   ` Arne Jansen
2011-06-03 21:18 ` Johannes Hirte
2011-06-04  6:25   ` Arne Jansen

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